Coupling-link for railway-cars



A. HAOKETT.

COUPLING LINK FOR RAILWAY CARS;

No. Z89,53O Patented Dec 4, 1883.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALLEN HAGKETT, OF LA GRANGE, MAINE.

COUPLING-LINK FOR RAILWAY-CARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent. No. 289,530, dated December 4, 1883.

Application filed September 29, 1883. (No model.)

T at whom it may concern Be it known that I, ALLEN HAOKETT, of La Grange, in the county of Penobscot and State of Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Coupling-Links for Railway-Oars; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, that will enable vice adapted for application to the'ordinary car-coupling link, and designed to avoid the danger of crushing the hand of the employe when shackling the car. It will be readily understood by reference to the annexed drawings, in which is shown, at a, the ordinary link, over which, at b, is slipped a loose sleeve having on each side or at top and bottom handles 0, projecting beyond the draw-barasufficientdistance to enable the brakeman to secure a firm hold. This draw-bar is shown in dotted lines at d. The sleeve 12 is made to fit loosely over the link, for the reason that it is sometimes the case that two cars of different constructions, with the draw-bars hollowed out unequally, are coupled together, the opening of one car not being deep enough to receive its half of the link, the result being the breakage of the handles, if they were rigidly secured. Furthermore, by attaching the handles loosely all danger of breakage is avoided if the cars bump together on a curve, the swiveling motion thus secured to the sleeve and attached handles insuring a square blow, which would simply tend to flatten the handles, and not to break them.

It is obvious that the sleeve 6 may be prevented from slipping over the link in several ways-as, for'instance, by bending it down in the center, as shown in Fig. 2, by a bolt or rivet connecting its parts through the center, by enlarging the ends of the link a, &c.; but these are devices which would readily suggest themselves to an ordinary mechanic, and do not affect the principle of my invention.

If desired, the sleeve 1) may be :made tight enoughto slide upon the link without the swiveling motion attained by making it loose.

This I claim, although I consider the other plan more desirable.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In combination with a car-coupling link, a, the loosely-sliding metallic sleeve b, passing over said link, retained thereon by being bent down in its center into the eye of said link, and provided with handles 0, projecting therefrom, as and for the purposes described.

2. In combination with a car-coupling link, a, the loosely-sliding and swiveling metallic sleeve 1), passing over said link, retained thereon by being bent down in its center into the eye of said link, and provided with handles 0, projecting therefrom, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of September. 1883.

ALLEN HAOKETT.

F. H. CLERGUE. 

